If you want to live peacefully in India
- Avoid roadrages
- Avoid teaching civic sense to strangers on road
- Avoid public transport
- Avoid discussing politics in public place
- Say sorry with folded hand and move on
People have became impatient and violent specially here.
This is the new epidemic which no one is talking about
Every year Jason Statham puts out a movie where he plays Jason Statham... He seeks vengeance for some ill action that's none of his business and gets it. Every year I watch it knowing exactly what will happen.
Mutiny done and dusted. See you again next year with the exact same storyline 🤣
In delhi 2016 fortuner won’t get fuel, get caught any your car is scrapped. Driving license comes home by paying the agent. We levy massive import duty to keep good cars at bay. And for a super hot country we have banned sunfilm. Presenting a selection of most absurd of rules 🇮🇳
If it took a Modi govt to build toilets, bring electricity to remote villages, give tap water to households.. what exactly was Congress doing in all those decades of uncontested rule?
#Gujarat#Monsoon
Cloudburst-like rain battered #Vapi in South Gujarat, where 8.58 inches of rainfall submerged vehicles and swept away animals in floodwaters. The torrential downpour has triggered severe flood-like conditions across parts of #Valsad district.
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Mesopotamia was never the cradle of civilisation. India was.
I spent forty years in international shipping, not academia. When I began researching the history of maritime trade, I had no orthodoxy to defend. I followed the evidence, and it kept arriving in the same place: the Indian subcontinent.
Nineteenth century archaeologists dug in Mesopotamia because the climate preserved artefacts, the biblical sources pointed them there, and the Ottomans allowed the excavations. That is the entire basis for the myth of Mesopotamia as "the cradle of civilisation."
Nobody applied the same rigour to India. Mohenjo-daro was not discovered until 1922. By then the narrative had already hardened.
What was actually there was the largest civilisation of the ancient world. Three hundred cities. Fifty thousand people in each, by 2600 BC. Two thirds of them stood on the banks of the Sarasvati, the central and greatest of the seven rivers described in the Rig Veda, flowing down from the Himalayas before the river vanished entirely by 1900 BC. The Vedic kings claimed territory stretching "sea to sea," from Afghanistan to Maharashtra, some 1.5 million square miles, against Egypt's 13,000. A dock at Lothal built to handle thirty ships of sixty tons, unmatched in Europe for four thousand years. When it was first excavated, it was recorded as a bathing pool.
When the scale became impossible to dismiss, the theory was not corrected. It was replaced with a story of pale-skinned nomads from the steppe who supposedly arrived around 1500 BC and brought civilisation with them. There is no evidence. The chronology doesn't work. The Vedas describe no invasion.
In 2019 a Harvard-led genetic study revived the claim, and the press reported it as confirmation. It was not. The same study found the builders of these cities were indigenous. The Sarasvati river that the Rig Veda described had already dried up before these newcomers arrived. What the study also found is that a small group of men, arriving after the Sarasvati had already dried up, interbred with the existing population and left a genetic signature. That is all.
So, where they chose to dig was mostly an accident of climate and access. The Aryan invasion theory was constructed because an Indian civilisation that owed nothing to Caucasians was a fact the late nineteenth century could not accommodate.
Link to full Substack essay with sources in the comments below.
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Yasin Malik’s men didn’t stop at raping the 27-year-old Kashmiri Hindu nurse Sarla Bhatt. They then murdered her, engraved the acronym ‘JKLF’ on her body, and mutilated it out of sheer contempt for her Hindu identity. After that, they issued multiple warnings to her family against cremating her remains according to Hindu rituals. The family still went ahead with the cremation, defying the threats. When they went to collect her cremated remains (asthi) later, a mob of around 200 Islamists descended upon the crematorium and stomped over them.
They didn’t stop even at that. They then bombed her family home with a grenade.
Do you really think all 200 of those monsters who showed up at the crematorium were foreign infiltrators, Pakistani terrorists, or JKLF members? These are the questions that make many Kashmiri Muslims very uncomfortable. The moment you raise these issues, especially when they present a narrative portraying their community as victims, they label you an Islamophobe or resort to similar accusations.
I have seen all kinds of Islamists, but the tribe in Kashmir is the craftiest. Many of them pretend to be atheists in private, yet their public behaviour and political leanings tell a completely different story. Very hard to take their words at face value.
People generally complain too much. Complain culture is rife. You need to be stretched to develop. Turn your head into a block of granite and plough through tough tasks that will result in improvement long-term. This is delayed gratification. Don’t complain.
Nobody's asking the hard questions about #Ethanol
- it has ~33% lower energy density than petrol. You WILL see worse fuel efficiency. You WILL feel a drop in power. And long-term? what about Pre 2022 cars which are barely E10 compliant?
Rubber seals, injectors, fuel pumps quietly degrading in engines never engineered for aggressive ethanol blends.
Reliability concerns that only show up after a few thousand kms.
And the poor car buyer? Told this is "green mobility" while silently absorbing every cost.
Also, what will happen to resale values of older non E20 compliant cars when the blend goes upto E25, E30 Etc in a couple of years?
Worse still, buyers have no choice at the pump but to buy E20 fuel. No option for E10 or E5.
A mandate without consumer protection, without transparent pump labelling, without honest disclosures really feels rushed.
The environment matters. Energy security is paramount too. But so is durability, efficiency and basic honesty.
#E20 #EthanolBlending
Hi! Yes, everything is e20 now (20% ethanol)
XP100 and Power99 have lesser blend but they aren't available. Only 1-2 pumps per state.
E20 existed for months now which was imposed on everyone even if your car is e5 or e10 compliant which itself was unfair but lately, it looks like blend is silently increased and getting tested. Is it e27 or e30 we don't know.
This has caused fuel economy to go down further and causing severe issues in cars.
Brand service advisors say, this is happening due to adulteration of fuel. Silently they say that ever since e20 is enforced problems have shoot up in Petrol cars.
Brands say their cars are material compatible and they will repair everything till warranty lasts but even if you have warranty for 6 years, you will always be at risk after that.
Things doesn't stop here. For Petrol cars which are 70% e10 right now, how can you enforce e30 as standard? No country does that! This is clearly done to have repeated sales and make people change cars like Phones. This is basically a knee jerk reaction to with fat bills of oil we are getting with our weak currency.
All customers basically want are e10, e20 and e85 as separate dispensers and no adulteration at any level.
This non clarity has ruined car market for informed buyers because now each tech, Petrol, Diesel and EVs have diff issues. So basically, even after paying 40% GST on car, crazy amount of registration fee, you still can't be sure to own your car trouble free for 10 years.
Absolute clown show this.
We are talking about this issue from 2024 itself in our Youtube videos when it wasn't even an issue.